AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+975%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Sep 2007
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
800
Shading Units
32
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G84
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
